1. five hundred - Noun
2. five hundred - Adjective Satellite
the cardinal number that is the product of one hundred and five
denoting a quantity consisting of 500 items or units
a card game similar to ecarte; each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand
Source: WordNetThe difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand. Henry Adams
The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man. G. K. Chesterton
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo daVinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock. Orson Welles
Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one. Arthur Schopenhauer
In order to provide the German housewife, above all mothers of many children...with tangible relief from her burdens, the Fuhrer has commissioned me to bring into the Reich from the eastern territories some four to five hundred thousand select, healthy, and strong girls. Fritz Sauckel
Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri. Francis Parkman